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Americans worry Trump too closely aligned with Russia, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

America's pivot on Russia, under a president who has in the past expressed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, has also jolted U.S. allies.

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. / REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

More than half of Americans, including one in four Republicans, think President Donald Trump is "too closely aligned" with Russia, as he radically realigns U.S. foreign policy, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.

The two-day poll completed on March 12 also found little appetite among Americans for Trump's expansionist agenda, as the Republican president talks of acquiring Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal.

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